Joel Horn (Livres)

Joel Horn Livres

Joel Horn relate une vie remarquable forgée dans les rudes montagnes Trinity Alps. Son écriture explore les thèmes de l'autosuffisance, de la survie et d'une connexion profonde avec le monde naturel, s'inspirant directement de ses expériences de vie isolée. À travers des récits captivants, il partage une perspective unique sur une vie où l'ingéniosité et l'indépendance sont primordiales. Son œuvre reflète à la fois son passé militaire et ses aspirations artistiques, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu d'un monde façonné par le savoir-faire et la nécessité.

Impossible Beyond This Point

382pages
14 heures de lecture

4,1(45)Évaluer

"Virgil Horn was an accomplished poet, sculptor and jewelry artist, as well as a ... teacher and WWII veteran ... In 1972 Virgil chronicled the family's extraordinary adventure in Hooray the Wilderness, but the manuscript was never published. Impossible Beyond This Point includes much of Virgil's original writings ... In the early 1960s, Marcella and Virgil heard about a mine in Trinity County and both fell in love with the wilderness paradise they found at the end of a steep, narrow foot trail ... Growing up in the Trinity Alps, Joel and his brothers learned how to do the numerous and varied tasks necessary for survival while carving out a life in their remote wilderness ... [This] combines his parents' writings with Joel's own recollections to create a fascinating and entertaining account of the family's struggle and triumph creating a life of freedom in the wilderness"--Publisher's description.